Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 519 667
Rank change year-on-year -101 +148 -83
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 79 117 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.29% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.18% 0.40% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 53 45 162
10th Percentile - £25,313 £57,988
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £83,577 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -1.67% +20.42%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,084 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year - +23.64% +5.77%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 43,234 28,908 55,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 52.15% 70.72% 60.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,594 15,767 39,038
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,967 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.80% +7.30% -9.52%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -87 78 £82,500 -1.29% 14
London -19 68 £80,000 +10.34% 8
UK excluding London -96 10 £85,000 - 10
North West -27 9 £85,000 -10.18% 4
North of England -78 9 £85,000 +231.71% 5
Work from Home +7 7 £75,000 +86.05% 6
Scotland -17 1 £90,000 - 1

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.80%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.53%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (3.80%) Misys Opics
1 3 (3.80%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (53.16%) AWS
2 36 (45.57%) Azure
3 20 (25.32%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.33%) GitHub
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (3.80%) PaaS
7 2 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.53%) SaaS
7 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.27%) Alation
8 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.27%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.27%) Figma
8 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.66%) Cisco Firepower
1 10 (12.66%) Firewall
1 10 (12.66%) LAN
1 10 (12.66%) VPN
1 10 (12.66%) WAN
2 8 (10.13%) BGP
2 8 (10.13%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (10.13%) OSPF
2 8 (10.13%) SD-WAN
2 8 (10.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) Data Lake
1 18 (22.78%) Metadata
2 4 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.80%) Data Mart
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.27%) DataStage
4 1 (1.27%) Mixpanel
4 1 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (1.27%) QlikView
4 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.27%) ERwin
3 1 (1.27%) JUnit
3 1 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
General
1 56 (70.89%) Banking
2 41 (51.90%) Finance
3 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (21.52%) Financial Institution
4 17 (21.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
5 13 (16.46%) Retail
6 1 (1.27%) Advertising
6 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (39.24%) Senior
2 18 (22.78%) Architect
2 18 (22.78%) Data Architect
3 15 (18.99%) Developer
4 14 (17.72%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Auditor
5 11 (13.92%) AWS Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Azure Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Cloud Developer
5 11 (13.92%) IT Auditor
5 11 (13.92%) Senior Auditor
5 11 (13.92%) Senior IT Auditor
6 10 (12.66%) Network Engineer
7 9 (11.39%) Senior Developer
8 8 (10.13%) Python Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Platform Manager
10 5 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.80%) .NET
3 1 (1.27%) Kafka
3 1 (1.27%) Spring
3 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Agile
2 22 (27.85%) DevOps
3 21 (26.58%) Data Management
3 21 (26.58%) Data Modelling
4 18 (22.78%) Asset Management
4 18 (22.78%) Business Development
4 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
4 18 (22.78%) Data Architecture
4 18 (22.78%) Data Strategy
4 18 (22.78%) Metadata Management
4 18 (22.78%) Migration
5 17 (21.52%) Commercialisation
5 17 (21.52%) Cost Management
5 17 (21.52%) Data Migration
5 17 (21.52%) Data Privacy
5 17 (21.52%) Innovative Thinking
5 17 (21.52%) Logical Data Model
5 17 (21.52%) Physical Data Model
6 16 (20.25%) Analytics
6 16 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.39%) Python
2 4 (5.06%) Java
2 4 (5.06%) SQL
3 3 (3.80%) C#
3 3 (3.80%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Azure Certification
2 17 (21.52%) AWS Certification
3 8 (10.13%) CCNP
3 8 (10.13%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.80%) Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) APMG
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Check_MK
2 7 (8.86%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.66%) Cisco
2 10 (12.66%) Palo Alto
3 8 (10.13%) SolarWinds
4 3 (3.80%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.27%) IBM
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica